The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Tuesday 13th June: "Doc" Barker is killed by prison guards as he attempts to escape from Alcatraz Prison. (San Francisco Bay - F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One, The )
August: Thomas Hewitt, aka Leatherface, is born on the production floor of Lee Bros' Meat Packing Co; he is found by Luda Mae Hewitt in a dumpster outside the building. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning)
September: Nazis take census of Polish Jews arriving in Krakow. (Schindler's List)
Thursday 2nd November: The military tribunal of POW Theodor Kretschmar-Schuldorff. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Sunday 26th November: Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) is born. (Brownsville, Tennessee - What's Love Got to Do with It)
The film 'The Dark Jungle' is released in cinemas, covering the Confederate expansion of America in the early 20th century. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Four children travel through a wardrobe and discover Narnia. (England - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert are hypnotised into a jewel heist. (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Tom Hagen marries Theresa; Frank Corleone and Frank Hagen born. (The Godfather)
The Blitz. (England - The Longest Day)
Amanda Krueger, as Sister Mary Helena, begins to work at Our Lady of Sorrows instutition for the mentally disturbed. (Westin Hills - A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors)
Allie and Noah go to the cinema, to see Lil Abner. Aw. (The Notebook)
The Sea Tiger ship commissioned. (Operation Petticoat)
After a series of cosmetic surgeries to alter his appearance, FBI agent Freeman Hellergoes deep undercover with the mafia. (Washington, DC - Smokin' Aces)
Friday 23rd February: Woody Guthrie writes "This Land is Your Land." (Bound for Glory)
Friday 23rd February: Scott Hayward, future inventor and speedboat champion, is born into an oil dynasty. (Texas, USA - Clambake)
Wednesday 20th March: Ace Lannigan foils an attempt to have him deported back to the US. (SIngapore - Road to Singapore)
Thursday 23rd May: Frank Sinatra records "I'll Never Smile Again". (Sinatra)
Saturday 1st June: Robbie Turner dies of septicemia when nearly evacuating Dunkirk. (Atonement)
Thursday 6th June: 150 rolls of toilet paper requested by USS Sea Tiger. (Operation Petticoat)
Friday 14th June: Nazis invade Paris; Rick Blaine is stood up at the train station by Ilsa Lund. (Paris - Casablanca)
Friday 14th June: Sam Diamond trusts a dame; she says she's going out for a bottle of wine, and 2 hours later the Germans march in. (Paris - Murder By Death)
Friday 21st June: Richard M. Nixon marries Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan. (Riverside, California - Nixon)
Wednesday 10th July: The Battle of Britain begins. (Battle of Britain)
Tuesday 20th August: Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded. (Mexico City - The Assassination of Trotsky)
Wednesday 11th September: Thomas Brian Reynolds is born. (Enemy of the State)
Tuesday 15th October: Cecilia Tallis dies in a flooded Balham tube station. (South London - Atonement)
Tuesday 15th October: The Great Dictator opens in theaters. (Chaplin)
Sunday 27th October: John J. Gotti Jr is born. (Brooklyn, New York - Gotti)
Thursday 31st October: The RAF battle with the German Luftwaffe comes to an end. (Lodon, England - The Battle of Britain)
Wednesday 27th November: Bruce Lee is born. (San Francisco, California - Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story)
December: "Everytown" devastated by aerial bombardment. (Things To Come)
Wednesday 25th December: Ralphie Parker gets a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas and doesn't shoot his eye out. (Hammond, Indiana - A Christmas Story)
German-commanded Japanese submarine tries to invade, successfully destroys ferris wheel and is thwarted by patriotic Americans. (Hollywood, CA - 1941)
The OSS, wartime predecessor to the CIA, is founded. (USA - Charade)
Charles Foster Kane dies. (Citizen Kane)
'Colonel Mustard' begins stealing air force radio parts during World War II, and sells them on the black market. (Clue)
Empire of the Sun. (Empire of the Sun)
Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning herself in a river. (Sussex, England - The Hours)
Monday 13th January: James Joyce dies. (Zurich, Switzerland - Nora)
Thursday 20th March: Nazis allow Jews to enter Krakow for the last time. (Schindler's List)
Tuesday 1st April: John P. Merrick, the richest man in the world, begins work as a children's shoes salesman at Neeley's Department Store, which he owns, under the assumed name of Thomas E. Higgins, all in an effort to infiltrate and crush a movement to organize the work force. (New York, NY - The Devil and Miss Jones)
Wednesday 2nd April: German Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel resumes his advance into Cyrenaica signaling the beginning of what nine days later will become the recapture of Libya by the Axis forces. (Libya - Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, The )
Friday 23rd May: Lord Mountbatten, cousin to a king, sunk by German dive-bombers. (Mediterranean Sea - Dieppe)
Monday 2nd June: Lou Gehrig dies. (Riverdale, New York - The Pride of the Yankees)
Wednesday 20th August: Irene, future mother of Raimunda and Sole, is born. (Volver)
Friday 21st November: Albert Speer asks for 30,000 Soviet prisoners of war to use as slave laborers to begin a massive Berlin building program. (Valkyrie)
Wednesday 26th November: Adm. Chuichi Nagumo leads the Japanese First Air Fleet toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should "negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force will immediately put about and return to the homeland." (Pearl Harbor)
December: Sam's watch stops and Ilsa leaves Rick. (Casablanca - Casablanca)
Friday 5th December: The U.S.S. Lexington makes its way across the Pacific in order to carry a squadron of dive bombers to defend Midway Island from an anticipated Japanese attack. (Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Saturday 6th December: USS Nimitz nuclear-power aircraft-carrier appears via a temporal vortex, till nearly Pearl Harbor time. (Pacific Ocean - The Final Countdown)
Sunday 7th December: The Naval and Air Forces of the Empire of Japan attack the United States of America. (Pearl Harbor)
Sunday 7th December: During the Pearl Harbor attack Rafe and Danny are flying P-40's "Warhawks" and manage to shoot 5 Japanese aircraft down. (Pearl Harbor - Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Saturday 13th December: 'Wild' Bill Kelso lands an American fighter plane. (Los Angeles, CA - 1941)
Tuesday 16th December: 150 rolls of toilet paper refused to USS Sea Tiger. (Operation Petticoat)
Young Alvy Singer in trouble for kissing girls in the classroom. (New York - Annie Hall)
The film Casablanca is released. (Best in Show)
The battle of the rats take place, a personal battle between the top German sniper and the top Soviet sniper during the battle of Stalingrad. (Stalingrad, Russia - Enemy at the Gates)
Amanda Krueger, as Sister Mary Helena, stops working at Our Lady of Sorrows institution, having been locked in The Tower by accident with 100 insane patients - she leaves alive, badly beaten, raped and impregnated. (Westin Hills - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Andrew Hagen born. (The Godfather: Part II)